R: Collapse factor levels into manually defined groups

fct_collapse {forcats} | R Documentation

## Collapse factor levels into manually defined groups

### Description

Collapse factor levels into manually defined groups

### Usage

    fct_collapse(f, ...)

### Arguments

`f` | A factor
`...` | A series of named character vectors. The levels in each vector will be replaced with the name.

### Examples

    fct_count(gss_cat$partyid)

    partyid2 <- fct_collapse(gss_cat$partyid,
      missing = c("No answer", "Don't know"),
      other = "Other party",
      rep = c("Strong republican", "Not str republican"),
      ind = c("Ind,near rep", "Independent", "Ind,near dem"),
      dem = c("Not str democrat", "Strong democrat")
    )
    fct_count(partyid2)

[Package forcats version 0.2.0 Index]